I was curious to see what Mohammed actually looked like, and found a nice image archive of Mohammed.
Someone should make these into bumper stickers.
A friend of mine posted this article in the forums: Why Americans Hate this Immigration Debate
I found the article interesting but slightly unsettling.. I couldn't put my finger on it, then I read more about the author. He is the author of this DVD: Siege of Western Civilization
After reading his bullet list on what are the biggest threats to "our Judeo-Christian heritage"I understood what it was that had been troubling me about his essay: it's completely full of shit.
He says:
The problem is the second group of Hispanics. They aren't immigrants - which is what neither the Democratic or Republican leadership seems to understand, or wants to acknowledge. They have come here solely for jobs, which isn't the same thing at all.
REALLY? You mean that the Chinese, Italians, Poles, Czechs, etc. all came here with a BURNING DESIRE to be integrated into the static, monolithic "Western Judeo-Christian culture"? That must explain why the Statue of Liberty says, "Give me your culturally inchoate... morally confused... easily baptized..."
The *only* problem with the current wave of immigrants is that they did not come via traditional immigration processes. This needs to be rectified, by allowing more folks in. I thought all the free-market Reagan conservatives would understand this:
1. there is a DEMAND for cheap goods and services in this country;
2. the goods are coming in from China via Wal-Mart
3. the services have got to come from somewhere
4. there is a SUPPLY of cheap labor right across the Rio Grande.
I think "the immigration problem" that no one wants to talk about is not that they are here illegally - since when have the vast majority of Americans cared about the law? (c.f. speeding; government wiretapping; Guitanamo Bay; torture; etc.) No, the problem is that just when we have a major spike in demand for cheap services, the influx of cheap servants meeting that demand have the GALL to try and preserve their own culture.
Strike that - the influxes of cheap servants throughout history have *always* attempted to preserve their own culture. Chinatown, Little Italy, even the Wurstfest/Oktoberfests held around the country are all remnants of this. The Noble Patricians of the Judeo-Christian Western Civilization (North American chapter) don't have a problem with any of these things because they are all Disneyland renditions - we can leave our safe, white suburbs, drive to them in our shiny Hummers, have lots of "authentic" food, then come back to American McReality. The problem with the Hispanic "guest workers" is that there are so many of them coming here that they are actually managing to - gasp! - form a *viable subculture*! Where they speak Spanish! And not in a cute "Moo Shu"/"Chicken Flied Pohk" sort of way like those adorable Chinese; they are speaking Spanish *for real*. And teaching it to their kids. And forming communities that are so self-contained that their kids can grow to adulthood without having a reasonable grasp of English.
Sound the alarm! The Chinese, Vietnamese, Cubans - they were all just ice cubes in our melting pot, and the only long-term effect will be that McDonald's will have to start serving pho sometime soon. But this flood of Hispanics... how do you say "thermos" in Spanish?
